thenceforth
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9.3
- adverb
- /ˈθɛnsˌfɔrθ/
- Archaic
:
desde entonces
- When they signed the agreement, thenceforth, the new rules were in effect for all members of the organization.
Examples
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He would thenceforth become critical of the President again and, in 1864, promote the candidacy of John C. to solve the following simple math (so we know that you are a human): -)
Blog text (9) -
It assumes, as well, that what "belongs" could be sold, and that one might thenceforth sell "his" image as one sells one's body (no, it's not the same).
Academic text (1999) -
I thenceforth gave up on her and never saw or heard from her again.
Blog text (17) -
The human problem, to which, at the origin, the total problem seemed to be subordinated, appears thenceforth as a capital element in the solution of the divine problem.
Academic text (1993) -
He was off by a factor of two, but he knew what the political consequences were: the Republican Party would thenceforth capture a fairly large majority of the White vote and become the party usually in power.
Blog text (33) -
Hearers who learn of speaker fallibility or deceptiveness will be on the alert, and they may thenceforth decline to accept statements from questionable sources.
Academic text (2001) -
In one sense, these negative factors can be taken for granted: that is, once they have been foregrounded and their negative effects spelled out, they can thenceforth always be assumed as the ultimately determining causes of most of the events in Joyce's texts.
Academic text (1991) -
Thenceforth into the summer, the man found excuses—the mayoral election, the billboard issue—to visit the milliner's cat.
Fiction book (2002) -
In Washington, D.C., the newly appointed Cheyenne-Arapaho director, W. Richard West, Jr., and the program administrator, Rick Hill of Tuscarora-Mohawk descent, indicated publicly that the NMAI would thenceforth be run for and by native people.
Academic text (1996) -
After making that decision, I thenceforth dedicated myself to my studies, focusing only on my goals.
Synonyms
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4.1
From that time on
From that time on
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word thenceforth is made of two parts: thence ('from that time' or 'from there') and forth ('forward' or 'onward'), and it is like the simple words then and forth put together. So, thenceforth means 'from that time onward' and shows a change that continues after a specific moment.